Secondary insults can adversely influence outcome following severe traumatic brain injury. Monitoring of cerebral extracellular chemistry with microdialysis has the potential for early detection of metabolic derangements associated with such events. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between the fundamental biochemical markers and neurological outcome in a large cohor...

BACKGROUND Heightened blood pressure (BP) responses to mental stress predict raised BP levels over subsequent years, but evidence for associations with incident hypertension is limited, and the significance of inflammatory responses is uncertain. PURPOSE We investigated the relationship between BP and plasma fibrinogen responses to stress and incident hypertension over an average 8-year follo...

Recent evidence indicates that a sexually dimorphic feature of humans, the facial width-to-height ratio (FWHR), is positively correlated with reactive aggression, particularly in men. Also, predictions about the aggressive tendencies of others faithfully map onto FWHR in the absence of explicit awareness of this metric. Here, we provide the first evidence that amygdala reactivity to social sign...

To identify a blood test that can differentiate cardiac from skeletal muscle injury in animals, we compared tissue reactivities for various species with the use of an immunoassay for human cardiac troponin I (cTnI). Tissue reactivity varied as a function of the homology of tissue troponin with human cTnI. Cardiac reactivity in large mammals was equivalent to cTnI, 9.8 +/- 0.6 mg/g, and was 2-fo...

Robot programming often sparks students’ interest in programming, but it is not easy for them to program both procedure and reactivity of robot movements that are essential requirements. In this study, we reviewed in detail a new programming language, State-Based Squeak. It allows novice students to implement both procedure and reactivity of robots easily. The effect of this new language on rob...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between skinfolds and visceral fat with vascular reactivity according to body weight, fat distribution and time since menopause in Mexican postmenopausal women. MATERIAL AND METHODS In postmenopausal women, tricipital, suprailiac and subscapular skinfolds as well as blood pressure were measured, and body mass index (BMI) and waist-hip ratio (WHR) were c...

In a recent paper, Descostes et al. (2004) present data on a series of pyrite oxidation batch experiments conducted near pH 2 and 3 where they demonstrate very well the non-stoichiometric dissolution/oxidation of pyrite in acidic solutions through an extensive laboratory investigation of S/Fe ratios. The authors utilized this data to propose a ‘mechanism’ of pyrite oxidation based on these data...

The objective of this study was to compare different antigen preparations to produce monoclonalantibodies against bovine leukaemia virus gp51SU. The four antigen preparations for immunization ofBALB/c mice were: CL: BLV-FLK cell lysate, UF: a fraction of CL (between 30 and 100 kDa), WVP: wholevirus particles and SP: with ion exchange chromatography, gp51SU was semipurified. A total of ninesucce...